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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 2368
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Could Taylor Swift swing the election?
Freddy Gray sits down with host and producer of the 538 Politics podcast Galen Druke to discuss whether a Taylor Swift endorsement could sway the general election.
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00:34:20 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Table Talk: Edward Stourton
Edward Stourton is a broadcaster who has worked as foreign correspondent for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Sunday Program, and presented the Today Program for ten y…
00:25:00 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Action Men: how the porn industry targets children
Julie Bindel speaks to Pala Molisa, an academic and life coach from Vanuatu. Pala has become an outspoken critic of sex work and the left's failure to accept the implications that a sexually liberate…
00:28:19 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
Americano: will Jon Stewart still be funny?
Freddy Gray speaks to Jonathan Askonas, assistant professor of politics at the Catholic University of America about Jon Stewart's return to TV, and what role, albeit inadvertent, he played in Tucker …
00:35:19 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Richard Dawkins, Douglas Murray and Cindy Yu
On this episode, Richard Dawkins explains how to convert an atheist like him to a Christian (00:37), Lisa Haseldine says the German army is in a dire state (05:53), Douglas Murray looks at the return…
00:31:29 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
The Edition: inside the SNP’s secret state
On the podcast: gangsterism or government?
The Covid Inquiry has moved to Scotland and, in his cover story for the magazine, our editor Fraser Nelson looks at the many revelations uncovered by Jamie …
The Covid Inquiry has moved to Scotland and, in his cover story for the magazine, our editor Fraser Nelson looks at the many revelations uncovered by Jamie …
00:39:28 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
The Book Club: Adam Phillips
On this week’s Book Club my guest is the writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, whose new book is On Giving Up. He tells me how literature relates to psychoanalysis, why censorship makes life possib…
00:36:33 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Americano: What went wrong with Ron?
Freddy Gray is joined in New Hampshire by Ben Domenech, editor at large of Spectator World. On the podcast they discuss the pro-Trump establishment of the Republican party; how the Republican cohort …
00:39:46 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Chinese Whispers: was China's economic boom 'made in America'?
Today, the US and China are at loggerheads. There’s renewed talk of a Cold War as Washington finds various ways to cut China out of key supply chains and to block China’s economic development in area…
00:53:16 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Action Men: Why trans activists are intellectually incoherent
Julie Bindel speaks Bob Jensen who is an academic and writer based in Toronto. Bob has authored several papers on the damaging and exploitative effects of the porn industry. On the podcast, Julie and…
00:33:02 |
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Americano: Is New Hampshire a Potemkin primary?
For this special Americano podcast, Freddy Gray is in New Hampshire with the Spectator US team, Matt McDonald and Zach Christenson covering the chilly primaries. Are both Ron De Santis and Nikki Hale…
00:18:13 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Fraser Nelson, Robert Hardman & Michael Simmons
This week: Spectator editor Fraser Nelson on why the Emirati ownership of the magazine matters (00:30), Robert Hardman on the time the King could have poisoned Rishi Sunak (06:24) and Michael Simmons…
00:17:40 |
Sat 20 Jan 2024
Women With Balls: Theo Clarke
Theo Clarke is Conservative MP for Stafford. She is the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Kenya and sits on the International Development Select Committee. Before being elected she set up and sold her …
00:28:08 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
The Edition: how Britain sobered up
This week:
The Spectator’s cover story looks at how Britain is sobering up, forgoing alcohol in favour of alcohol free alternatives. In his piece, Henry Jeffreys – author of Empire of Booze – attacks…
The Spectator’s cover story looks at how Britain is sobering up, forgoing alcohol in favour of alcohol free alternatives. In his piece, Henry Jeffreys – author of Empire of Booze – attacks…
00:35:54 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
The Book Club: Rebecca Boyle
In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Rebecca Boyle to talk about her new book Our Moon: A Human History. She tells me how we know that the moon is more than just an inert lump of rock in t…
00:35:22 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Table Talk: Alexander Collier
Alexandra Collier is a Melbourne-based writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. She is a MacDowell fellow and a recipient of the RE Ross Trust playwrites' award. Her memoir Inconceivable…
00:23:22 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Holy Smoke: Gay blessings and theological porn
Just before Christmas, the Vatican's new doctrinal chief Cardinal Victor ‘Tucho’ Fernandez unveiled a new style of blessing designed to make gay couples feel at home in church without changing the Ch…
00:21:57 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Why we don't need 'male feminists'
Julie Bindel speaks to Michael Conroy who teaches boys against rape, domestic violence and porn use. Michael set up Men At Work – an organisation that looks at 'macho culture', the different ways boy…
00:34:56 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
Spectator Out Loud: Cindy Yu, Mary Wakefield and Natasha Feroze
This week: Cindy Yu reads her piece ahead of the Taiwanese elections (00:54), Mary Wakefield discusses the US opioid crisis which she fears has come to the UK (07:13), and Natasha Feroze tells us abo…
00:17:52 |
Sat 13 Jan 2024
The Edition: why Trump can't be stopped
This week: can anyone stop Trump?
The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Guy takes a look at Trump's ‘second coming’ in his cover story. He says that despite Trump’s legal troubles, he is almost certai…
The Spectator’s deputy editor Freddy Guy takes a look at Trump's ‘second coming’ in his cover story. He says that despite Trump’s legal troubles, he is almost certai…
00:36:14 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
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